Motion to Vary the Order of Business
Full council, 25 September 2019: a named vote on the motion, lost.
For 18, Against 19, Abstained 7.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Conservative. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (18)
- Ben Chapelard (Liberal Democrats)
- Dave Funnell (Liberal Democrats)
- Marguerita Morton (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Ellis (Liberal Democrats)
- Peter Lidstone (Liberal Democrats)
- Trevor Poile (Liberal Democrats)
- Andrew Hickey (Independent)
- David Neve (Independent)
- James Rands (Independent)
- Rodney Atkins (Independent)
- Alain Lewis (Labour)
- Dianne Hill (Labour)
- Hugo Pound (Labour)
- Luke Everitt (Labour)
- Nancy Warne (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Nicholas Pope (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Christian Atwood (Conservative)
- David Hayward (Independents for Tunbridge Wells)
Against (19)
- Alan McDermott (Conservative)
- Andy Fairweather (Conservative)
- Barry Noakes (Conservative)
- Bob Backhouse (Conservative)
- Carol Mackonochie (Conservative)
- Chris Woodward (Conservative)
- David Scott (Conservative)
- Frank Williams (Conservative)
- Godfrey Bland (Conservative)
- James Scholes (Conservative)
- Jane March (Conservative)
- Len Horwood (Conservative)
- Mrs Barbara Cobbold (Conservative)
- Mrs Julia Soyke (Conservative)
- Patrick Thomson (Conservative)
- Paul Barrington-King (Conservative)
- Sarah Hamilton (Conservative)
- Tom Dawlings (Conservative)
- Matthew Bailey (not matched to a member)
Abstained (7)
- David Reilly (Conservative)
- Dr Linda Hall (Conservative)
- Joe Simmons (Conservative)
- Joy Podbury (Conservative)
- Julian Stanyer (Conservative)
- Mrs Elizabeth Thomas (Conservative)
- Ms Beverley Palmer (Conservative)
From the minutes
ayor, on the advice of the Monitoring Officer, ruled that consideration of the potential implications of decisions to be made was proper. Councillor Chapelard requested a recorded vote on the motion. Members who voted in favour of the motion: Councillors Atkins, Atwood, Chapelard, Ellis, Everitt, Funnell, Hayward, Hickey, Hill, Lewis, Lidstone, Morton, Neve, Poile, Pope, Pound, Rands and Warne. (18) Members who voted against the motion: Councillors Backhouse, Bailey, Barrington-King, Bland, Mrs Cobbold, Dawlings, Fairweather, Hamilton, Horwood, Mackonochie, March, McDermott, Noakes, Scholes, Scott, Mrs Soyke, Thomson, Williams and Woodward. (19) Members who abstained from voting: Councillors Dr Hall, Ms Palmer, Podbury, Reilly, Simmons, Stanyer and Mrs Thomas. (7) MOTION NOT CARRIED
The item in the council's own minutes. Names are matched to the councillors listed at the meeting. The names of people who aren't councillors are removed.